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Life of Pie
Stylistic Storyboard
This is a coloured and stylized storyboard done for an excerpt taken from Life of Pie.
I saw three men, crew members. They were looking overboard. I shouted. They turned. They looked at me and at each other.
The men were nodding vigorously at me. When they took a hold on me and lifted me in their strong arms, I thought nothing of it.
Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have droughts.
I thought they were going to jump in after me. Instead they turned their heads, looked horrified, and this creature appeared in the air, leaping with grace of a racehorse.
The zebra missed the tarpaulin. It landed with a loud crash on the last bench, smashing it and shaking the whole lifeboat. The lifeboat fell through the air and we hit the seething water.
The ship sank. It made sounds like a monstrous metallic burp. Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
From the lifeboat I saw something in the water. I cried, "Richard Parker, is that you?" It was so hard to see.I could see his head. He was struggling to stay at the surface of the water.
He was looking up, taking in the sky one last time. There was a lifebuoy in the boat with a rope tied to it. I took hold of it and waved it in the air. "Don't give up Richard Parker, In a few seconds you'll be aboard and we'll be together!
Wait a second. Together?! Have I gone mad?" Richard Parker rose unsteadily to his feet on the tarpaulin. I had wet, trembling, half drowned, three year old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat.
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